Bernard also enjoys the popularity he gains by association with John, but when he learns that people are just humoring him, he soon grows resentful. In response, he gets revenge by bringing John (the Savage) back to London and exposing the Director as John’s father, which causes the Director to resign from his position in shame. Bernard enjoys feeling like a rebellious outsider until it costs him something-the Director threatens to send him to Iceland for being too unorthodox. Bernard dates Lenina Crowne at the beginning of the novel, taking her to the Savage Reservation in New Mexico. But Bernard’s inferiority complex also makes him defensive, resentful, jealous, cowardly, and boastful. This outsider status and individuality allows Bernard both to recognize and criticize the flaws of the World State-and, as a result, other citizens suspect him for his avoidance of universally-accepted things like promiscuous sex and the soma drug that the rest of the population uses to numb themselves. As a result, he feels like an outsider to World State society. Bernard's small stature has given him an inferiority complex. Bernard is an Alpha citizen who, by some mischance, is physically much smaller than Alphas are supposed to be.
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